"The 17th Street levee was bombed by the Army Corps of Engineers to save the
more valuable
real estate in the city… to keep the French Quarter protected, the Ninth
Ward was sacrificed…
people are afraid to speak out… everyone who was near there heard the
bombings… they bombed
seven times. That’s why they didn’t fix the levees… 20 feet of water.
Gators. People dying in
water. They let the parishes go, not the city center. Tourist trap was saved
over human life."
http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread168591/pg1

September 7, 2005 -- Locals from Lakeview subdivision of New
Orleans report that after Katrina passed a loose barge struck levee causing
breach that flooded city.

WMR has just been informed by evacuees in Baton Rouge from Lakeview, a
well-to-do New Orleans neighborhood, that the flooding of the city was
caused by a loose barge striking the levee on the 17th Street Canal. The
breach was not caused by rising flood waters as reported by FEMA and other agencies. Lakeview is some 1.5
miles down Veterans Boulevard from the 17th St. Canal breach.

Distraught evacuees want to know why the Coast Guard or the U.S. Army Corps
of Engineers did not secure the barge. The evacuees who witnessed the barge
striking the levee also want to know why the major media is not covering
this story. It is not known what company owns the barge but if it is a major
campaign contributor to the GOP, the answer is self-evident. http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/

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Evidence of Explosives
Found at Levee Break

Hal Turner / TurnerShow.com

NEW ORLEANS (September 9, 2005) — Divers inspecting the ruptured levee walls
surrounding New Orleans found something that piqued their interest: Burn
marks on underwater debris chunks from the broken levee wall!One diver, a member of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, saw the burn marks
and knew immediately what caused them. He secreted a small chunk of the
cement inside his diving suit and later arranged for it to be sent to
trusted military friends at a The US Army Forensic Laboratory at Fort Gillem,
Georgia for testing.According to well placed sources, a military forensic specialist determined
the burn marks on the cement chunks did, in fact, come from high-explosives.
The source, speaking on condition of anonymity said “We found traces of
boron-enhanced fluoronitramino explosives as well as PBXN-111. This would
indicate at least two separate types of explosive devices.”The levee ruptures in New Orleans did not take place during Hurricane
Katrina, but rather a day after the hurricane struck. Several residents of
New Orleans and many Emergency Workers reported hearing what sounded like
large, muffled explosions from the area of the levee, but those were
initially discounted as gas explosions from homes with leaking gas lines.If these allegations prove true, the ruptured levee which flooded New
Orleans was a deliberate act of mass destruction perpetrated by someone with
access to military-grade UNDERWATER high explosives.

NOTEHal Turner, a New York based broadcaster, is shock-jock with racist
leanings. He is virulently pro-property and anti-police and, as the
following list of stories from his Web site indicate, he is a virulent
racist. Still, the suggestion about explosive residue at the levee site
deserves attention. Turner is a bozo, but he may have stumbled across
something that the media needs to investigate further. http://www.mullingitover.com/wpress/2005/09/07/were-the-levees-bombed/

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Earwitness
tells ABC explosives blew Industrial Canal leveeTranscript:DAVID MUIR, ABC NEWS: This is the actual levee that runs along the canal on
the eastern side of the city. And when the hurricane hit, the water came
through at such force, it was apparently too much. You can see the massive
breach here, and when you look around the corner you can see what the water
did to the Lower Ninth Ward. It compleetley destoryed neighborhoods.

JOE EDWARDS, JR., 9TH WARD RESIDENT: I heard something go BOOM!

MUIR: Joe Edwards rushed to get himself and as many neighbors as possible
into his truck. They drove to this bridge, where they've been living ever
since

EDWARDS: My house broke in half. My mother's house just disintegrated. It
was a brick house. All the houses down there floated down the street like
somebody's guiding 'em

MUIR: Was it solely the water that broke the levee, or was it the force of
this barge that now sits where homes once did? Joe Edwards says neither.
People are so bitter, so disenfranchised in this neighborhood, they actually
think the city did it, blowing up the levee to save richer neighborhoods
like the French Quarter.

MUIR: So you're convinced . . .

EDWARDS: I know this happened!

MUIR: . . . they broke the levee on purpose?

EDWARDS: They blew it!

MUIR: New Orleans' mayor says there's no credence to this.

NEW ORLEANS MAYOR RAY NAGIN: That storm was so powerful and it pushed so
much water, there's no way anyone could have calculated what levee to
dynamite to have the kind of impact to save the French Quarter.

ABC NEWS Man Claims he heard New Orleans Levees
Dynamited into flooding city

At that point, the diver went back down to do more inspection of the levee.
On the second dive, he secreted a small chunk of the debris inside his wet
suit and later arranged for it to be sent to trusted military friends at a
The U.S. Army Forensic Laboratory at Fort Gillem, Georgia for testing.
According to well placed sources, a military forensic specialist determined
the burn marks on the cement chunks did, in fact, come from high explosives.
The source, speaking on condition of anonymity said "We found traces of
boron-enhanced fluoronitramino explosives as well as PBXN-111 embedded in
the debris. This would indicate at least two separate types of explosive
devices." The levee ruptures in New Orleans did not take place during
Hurricane Katrina, but rather a day after the hurricane struck. Several
residents of New Orleans and many Emergency Workers reported hearing what
sounded like large, muffled explosions from the area of the levee, but those
were initially discounted as gas explosions from homes with leaking gas
lines. If these allegations prove true, the ruptured levee which flooded New
Orleans was a deliberate act of mass destruction perpetrated by someone with
access to military-grade UNDERWATER high explosives.

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Very Painful Questions About New Orleans
By America's Patriot9-8-5

There's something very wrong with the chronology of the levee breaks in New
Orleans

Do you find it highly suspicious that the levees in New Orleans broke at
4:00 AM on August 30th?

The main storm surge from Hurricane Katrina would have been washed into Lake
Pontchartrain at about 7:00 AM on August 29th when the counterclockwise
motion of Katrina was pushing water from the Gulf of Mexico into the lake.

Why is there a 21 hour discrepancy between the storm surge and the collapse
of the levees?

During the initial news coverage, some media outlets tried to explain away
the time discrepancy as a "secondary storm surge" off of Lake Pontchartrain.
Hurricanes DO NOT, never have and never will create "secondary storm
surges". There's only one storm surge, the main surge while a hurricane
makes landfall.

A secondary storm surge is about as believable as a magic bullet. But of
course anybody who logically investigates the facts of this catastrophe will
be accused of spending way too much time on the grassy knoll.

Now lets move on to the next two questions.

Why did pumping station #6, according to a statement made by New Orleans
Mayor Ray Nagin during an interview with Matt Lauer on the August 29th
edition of the Today Show, fail in the lower 9th ward, which also happens to
be the section of New Orleans which is the deepest part of the city? Why did
the Industrial Canal levee break near the 9th ward a few hours later?

It's interesting that both the failure of pumping station #6 and the
Industrial Canal levee occurred within hours of each other within the same
geographic area.

The breakdown of pumping station #6 would have gradually allowed the
flooding of the 9th ward and force it's residents to flee to the second
floor and roofs of their houses.

The immediate flood of water from the breach of the Industrial Canal levee a
few hours later would have easily drowned everyone who was unlucky enough to
still be inside of their home in the lower 9th ward and waterlog every
single one of those houses up to the roof. By the time the water is pumped
out the city, all of those waterlogged houses will have to be condemned and
torn down.

In light of the U.S. Supreme Court's recent eminent domain decision on
private property, the City of New Orleans can easily condemn all of those
destroyed properties and seize the land under eminent domain when the city
is rebuilt. Of course with most of the residents of the 9th ward ending up
dead, there's no one left to reclaim the properties or to fight back against
city hall. Very convenient for anyone wishing to seize that property.

So lets continue by looking into the "construction projects" connected to
the levees.

Why did the broken section of the 17th Street Canal levee undergo
"construction" within the past year?
http://web.archive.org/web/20051226080637/http://www.ocnus.net/artman/publish/printer_20044.shtmlsite down"The Senate was seeking to restore some of the SELA funding cuts for 2006.
But now it's too late. One project that a contractor had been racing to
finish this summer was a bridge and levee job right at the 17th Street
Canal, site of the main breach on Monday."

Don't you find it very convenient that the levees broke in the exact same
sections that were undergoing construction?

Predictably, skeptics and disinformation specialists, who will go out of
their way to discredit serious inquiries into the levee collapses, will make
up excuses and claim "shoddy construction" caused the collapse of both the
17th Street and Industrial Canals.

Of course the "shoddy construction" explanation was the same excuse used by
skeptics and disinformation specialists to explain away the implosion of the
World Trade Center towers and Building 7 on 9/11, which have been repeatedly
proven to be controlled demolitions.

The cuts in federal funding for the levee system in New Orleans brings up
even more interesting questions.

Why was the funding for the levee system cut by the Bush Administration?

According the New Orleans newspapers, several articles were published
condemning the Bush Administrations slashing of funds for the maintenance of
the levees in New Orleans;
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=\1001051313
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"In early 2004, as the cost of the conflict in Iraq soared, President Bush
proposed spending less than 20 percent of what the Corps said was needed for
Lake Pontchartrain, according to a Feb. 16, 2004, article, in New Orleans
CityBusiness.

On June 8, 2004, Walter Maestri, emergency management chief for Jefferson
Parish, Louisiana; told the Times-Picayune: "It appears that the money has
been moved in the president's budget to handle homeland security and the war
in Iraq, and I suppose that's the price we pay. Nobody locally is happy that
the levees can't be finished, and we are doing everything we can to make the
case that this is a security issue for us." --

"Hurricane Pam brought sustained winds of 120 mph, up to 20 inches of rain
in parts of southeast Louisiana and storm surge that topped levees in the
New Orleans area. More than one million residents evacuated and Hurricane
Pam destroyed 500,000-600,000 buildings. Emergency officials from 50 parish,
state, federal and volunteer organizations faced this scenario during a
five-day exercise held this week at the State Emergency Operations Center in
Baton Rouge." --

This willful ignorance by Bush is very similar to a comment made just after
9/11 by then National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice who claimed "nobody
had any idea that planes would be crashed into the World Trade Center" even
though there were previous reports as well as NORAD and Pentagon
drills(Operation Boijinka) which suggested planes would be used for
terrorism.

Members of the Bush Administration knew full well this catastrophe was
coming. Which begs the question: Were the collapse of the 17th Street Canal
and the Industrial Canal levees deliberate events?

In light of all the evidence that's piling up, the conclusion would have to
be "yes".

Were the levees destroyed with explosive charges?

Shaped charges would be the most convenient way to rupture those levees and
the only way to explain why they ruptured so quickly instead of slowly
crumbling apart in small pieces. With the city and and the surrounding areas
evacuated, there would be very few witnesses to this type of deliberate
sabotage, especially if it took place at 4 o'clock in the morning.

Were shaped explosive charges hidden inside of sealed, waterproof
compartments during the "construction" on the 17th Street and Industrial
Canal levees and conveniently detonated in the aftermath of Katrina?

In light of evidence of shaped charges being used in the destruction the
Murrah Building in Oklahoma City on April 19th, 1995 and inside of the World
Trade Center complex on September 11th, 2001, the probability is very high.

The circumstances surrounding the breaches of the levees becomes even
stranger with the next piece of information.

Since a truck bomb was used to mask the presence of shaped charges in the
Murrah Building in Oklahoma City and that the crashes of planes and
resulting fires were used to mask the shaped charge demolition of the World
Trade Center, we now have to turn to the mysterious barge that was
conveniently parked near the area of the Industrial Canal levee breach;

http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:I2iPvB6LGs0J:www.startribune.com/stories/48\4/5598188.html+barge+may+have+caused+breach&hl=en
site goneBarge in the breach?

A loose barge may have caused a large breach in the east side of the
Industrial Canal floodwall that accelerated Hurricane Katrina's rising
floodwaters in New Orleans, Army Corps of Engineers project manager Al Naomi
said Monday.

Naomi said the barge was found on the land side of the floodwall, leading
corps officials to believe that it could have crashed through the wall and
sent a huge amount of water -- which was already pouring over the top --
into the neighborhoods immediately downriver. -- Why was a barge parked next to the area of the Industrial Canal levee
breach, especially when everyone knew a Category 5 hurricane was approaching
the city? Was it planted there to make the collapse of the Industrial Canal
levee look like an accident?

During the Oklahoma City Bombing, a truck with a fertilizer and fuel oil
bomb was parked in front of the Murrah building by Timothy McVeigh and
several Iraqi intelligence agents(who were brought into the U.S. by Bush Sr.
during his term in office and were caught assisting McVeigh on video
surveillance tapes confiscated under national security) in order to make it
look like the truck bomb took down the building even though we know shaped
charges caused the hole in the Murrah building.

It was the same way with the World Trade Center on 9/11. Planes were crashed
into the buildings and the resulting fires were used in the governments
whitewash of the events which claimed that the steel columns melted and
caused the collapse. FDNY firefighter tapes prove the fires were nearly out
before the shaped charge implosions of Towers 1 and 2 as well as Building 7, a demolition which was admitted several
months later by Larry Silverstein on a PBS documentary called "America
Rebuilds".

So the presence of this barge in the exact area where the Industrial Canal
levee breached is highly suspicious.

On a side note, the original story linked above has been "scrubbed" from the
main Minneapolis Star Tribune website and replaced with a totally different
story. Luckily the original article was found in the Google cache. Looks
like whoever destroyed those levees are putting massive pressure on
newspapers and websites to censor the truth.

Now we have to ask, who benefits from this tragedy?

Halliburton, the company previously headed by Dick Cheney, has already been
awarded contracts to clean up the damage from Katrina.

http://www.halliburton.com/default/main/halliburton/eng/news/source_files/news.j\spnewsurl=/default/main/halliburton/eng/news/source_
files/press_statement/2005/\corpnws_090205.html
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"Also, as part of the company's Construction Capabilities (CONCAP) contract
with the U.S. Naval Facilities Engineering Command (NAVFAC), Halliburton's
subsidiary KBR is providing power distribution restoration, emergency roof
repair and debris removal at three Mississippi Naval facilities that were
damaged by Hurricane Katrina. Additionally, KBR will begin performing damage
assessments on other Naval facilities in New Orleans as soon as it is deemed
safe to do so."

Just like with the aftermath of the Iraq War, Dick Cheney and Halliburton
will line their pockets by making billions of dollars off of the suffering
of thousands of innocents.

Unfortunately for truth seekers, there will be influential individuals in
the truth movement who will say that people who ask these types of questions
"are shooting their mouths off" or will shut down inquiries into this event
by saying "lets not get into this right now because of the scope of this
tragedy". Unfortunately, they are unintentionally and unwittingly letting
the perpetrators get away with this crime against humanity in New Orleans.

But those of us who ask these painful questions can always take solace in
the following quote from Mark Twain:

"In the beginning of a change, the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and
hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it
costs nothing to be a patriot."

It's clear the destruction of New Orleans with the levee breaches was a
deliberately manufactured event which was designed to bring about the chaos
we saw in New Orleans and to bring us closer to the New World Order police
state.

Also heard that part of the reason our house flooded is they dynamited
part of the levee after the first section broke - they did this to prevent
Uptown (the rich part of town) from being flooded. Apparently they used too
much dynamite, thus flooding part of the Bywater. So now I know who is
responsible for flooding my house - not Katrina, but our government. http://getyouracton.com/blog/?p=63
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